Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

The Battle of Luzon remains a powerful example of how U.S. Army landpower serves as a decisive force in the Indo-Pacific.

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, named for the pioneering Navy nurse and ... and served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, as well as the ...

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago.

Don is joined by historian Timothy Heck, naval historian, artillery officer and author of two books on amphibious warfare. They discuss the tactical importance of Iwo Jima, the battle itself and ...

(AP/INP Pool) What happens when a retired Navy ... kids about World War II, they’ll know Pearl Harbor or dropping the atomic bomb, but they don’t know anything else about the Pacific.

Cram, a Navy corpsman with the 5th Marine ... which commemorates one of the war’s bloodiest battles. Around 170 people — but no WWII veterans — took part in last year’s ceremony on the ...

Two decades ago, the U.S. Navy had 282 battle-force ships against the Chinese navy ... strengths and weaknesses defined the United States and imperial Japan in World War II’s Pacific theater. At the ...